Bear Fruit Worthy of Repentance
Second Sunday of Advent, Year A, RCL Matthew 3:1-12 “There was a story in my Sunday School lesson text,” Jimmy Carter says in his book...
The Mantra of the Desert
Second Sunday of Advent, Year C, RCL, Baruch 5:1-9, Philippians 1:3-11, Luke 3:1-6, Canticle 16 “Prepare the way of the Lord,” is what...
Love is All but Absent
Year B, Proper 10, RCL, Track 1 Psalm 24, Ephesians 1:3-14, Mark 6:14-29 We have a responsibility to truth-telling and to admonish our...
A Quick Determination
Third Sunday of Advent, Year B, RCL John 1:6-8, 19-28 A voice calling out in the wilderness. Didn’t we hear this last week? We did, but...
Expectant Waiting
Second Sunday of Advent, Year B RCL Isaiah 40:1-11, Mark 1:1-8, Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13 I arrive at the water’s edge after a day’s walk. In...
The truth hangs over them like a cloud
Proper 21, Year A, Track 1, Philippians 2:1-13, Matthew 21:23-32 The truth is hanging over these elders and chief priests like a cloud....
Pick up the Baton
First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of our Lord Year A Matthew 3:13-17 Today we have reason to celebrate; we have a baptism. Not...